{"id":3852,"date":"2021-11-03T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2022-01-02T20:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T02:21:02","slug":"3852","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/11\/03\/3852\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not aware yet of any facts that support Iran&#8217;s declaration that the U.S. Navy tried to take an Iranian oil tanker.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/iran-us-oil-tanker-attempt-to-steal-thwarted-tehran-claims\">\u201cIran claims it thwarted a U.S. attempt to &#8220;steal&#8221; a tanker full of oil,\u201d<\/a> Tucker Reals, CBS, November 3, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/42987\/video-shows-u-s-destroyers-very-intimate-standoff-with-iranian-vessels-over-seized-oil-tanker\">\u201cVideo Shows U.S. Destroyer&#8217;s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated),\u201d<\/a> Joseph Trevithick, The War Zone, November 3, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIran&#8217;s raid on an oil tanker resulted in an incredibly close encounter between its gunboats and a U.S. Navy destroyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the facets of the ongoing dispute between Iran and the world is the NYT\u2019s (and some other major media) refusal to look at the track record of Iran\u2019s claims.\u00a0 Instead, the NYT portrays this story and many others, especially as they unfold, as conflicting stories between Iran and the U.S.\u00a0 The reader doesn\u2019t know who to believe.\u00a0 But if the NYT would run a story or remind its readers of Iran\u2019s very long history of duplicity in these types of matters it would give better context and understanding to readers.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/oil.html#:~:text=U.S.%20and%20Iranian%20officials%20gave,The%20Pentagon%20denied%20that\">\u201cIran Seizes an Oil Tanker, but Whose Tanker Is Disputed,\u201d<\/a> Farnaz Fassihi and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, November 3, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not aware yet of any facts that support Iran&#8217;s declaration that the U.S. Navy tried to take an Iranian oil tanker.\u00a0 \u201cIran claims it thwarted a U.S. attempt to &#8220;steal&#8221; a tanker full of oil,\u201d Tucker Reals, CBS, November 3, 2021. \u201cVideo Shows U.S. Destroyer&#8217;s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2021\/11\/03\/3852\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2819,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2819"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}